Favorite Foreign-Language Films of 1998
1. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao Hsien/ Taiwan)
2. THE APPLE (Samira Mahkmalbaf/ Iran)
-- CABARET BALKAN (Goran Paskaljevic/ Yugoslavia)
4. THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vitenberg/ Denmark)
-- THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS (Erick Zonka/ France)
-- I STAND ALONE (Gaspar Noe/ France)
-- THE HOLE (Tsai Ming Liang/ Taiwan)
8. BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT (Emir Kusturica/ Yugoslavia)
-- CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST (Jin Ho Hur/ South Korea)
-- DOCTOR AKAGI (Shohei Imamura/ Japan)
-- ETERNITY AND A DAY (Theo Angelopoulos/ Greece)
-- LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER (Olivier Assayas/ France)
Runners Up
Lovers of the Artic Circle, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, Divorce Iranian Style, Central Station, West Beirut, Secret Defense, Wind With the Gone, Beshkempir the Adopted Son, The Harmonium in my Memory, Show Me Love, Alice and Martin, Divine, The Rose Seller.